Jacques & Jack : faux amis but real friends

“Jacques & Jack” our regular cartoon at the foot of page 5 of every Snippet edition is provided by @lefrancaisaveclesmachin. To improve your everyday French, follow them on Instagram and Facebook. « Jacques & Jack », notre bande dessinée habituelle au bas de la page 5 de chaque numéro de Snippet, est réalisée par @lefrancaisaveclesmachin. Pour améliorer votre français au quotidien, suivez-les sur Instagram et Facebook. Email : lefrancaisaveclesmachin@gmail.com

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Roland Garros

Behind the unwritten codes of conduct and the omnipresent French buzz, some would rightly ask who was Mr Roland Garros to have a stadium named after him. Contrary to popular belief, he never played tennis! A pioneer in aviation who developed the first single seater fighter plane equipped with an on-board machine gun that fired through the propeller, he died in combat in 1918. In tribute to his bravery and in his honour, in 1928 the stadium now known as Roland-Garros was opened after France represented by René Lacoste, Henri…

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Trillium International School / L’école Internationale TRILLIUM

SCHOOLTogether let’s give our children roots to grow and wings to fly!Trillium International School has welcomed 400 children from when it first opened its doors in 2017. Since 2022, under the capable and energetic direction of Alexandrine Deliancourt and her international teaching team, the school continues to offer a genuinely bilingual, bicultural English-French education spanning ages 18 months to 10 years. Responding to a recent questionnaire parents gave the school an overwhelming “thumbs up” and the latest report from independent school inspectors rated Trillium as “Excellent”. PedagogyOur aim is to…

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